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Essential 350 P89 ~ P91 Q P92  R P93 ~ P94

17. Underpaying his staff and failing to heat his business office were only a few of Scrooge's parsimonious habits.

□ stingy	□ wasteful	□ immature	□ generous

18. Religion has arisen from people's need to ponder their origins.

□ deny	□ justify	□ think about	□ cherish

19. Although the applicant was well qualified, she wasn't even considered for the job because the _____ way she boasted of her past accomplishments seemed ______ to the interviewer.

□ effusive - frugal	□ pompous - excessive	□ candid - optimistic	□ pessimistic - haughty

20. The Garden of Eden, a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously.

□ after his death	□ after much debate	□ after its discovery	□ after much revision

21. He has promiscuous eating habit.

□ good	□ refined	□ selective	□ indiscriminate

22. Garlic is a plant grown for its pungently flavored bulb, which is used to season foods.

□ strongly	□ strangely	□ deliciously	□ lightly

23. Once the hope for democracy in the tiny island nation, Aristide has recently come to be seen as the cause of the people's plight rather than their salvation.

□ hardship	□ whim	□ anger	□ curse

24. Her explanation seemed entirely plausible to me, but then again I could be wrong.

□ ridiculous	□ acceptable	□ incorrect	□ arbitrary

25. Climate is the 느 of the weather conditions prevalent in an area over a period of time.

□ influential	□ widespread	□ affecting	□ indigenous

26. In spite of the misery of unemployment, he tried to _____ on a brave face.

□ turn	□ keep	□ put	□ catch

27. Economists are always prescribing remedies for the current economic crisis.

□ expecting	□ laying down	□ covering up	□ researching

Q

1. The glass started to quiver with the rain hitting it, because it wasn't so much rain as hail. The hail smashed against everything including my faith.

□ get wet	□ fog up	□ tinkle	□ vibrate

2. As the waves rose and the ship tossed, many of the passengers felt ______.

□ lethargic	□ depressed	□ queasy	□ tremulous

R

1. Some of the regulations seemed too severe.

□ judgements	□ rules	□ attitudes	□ punishments

2. He had been characteristically reticent regarding the details of his own financial affairs.

□ loquacious	□ garrulous	□ taciturn	□ talkative

3. Mary usually does things with little care : She is reckless.

□ rash	□ rapt	□ racy	□ rare

4. After a rape accusation against the two athletes was recanted, questions arise on the news media's reporting of the case.

□ criticized	□ reinforced	□ repeated	□ withdrawn	□ erased

5. To _____ an organization or system means to change the way it is organized, usually in order to make it work more effectively.

□ establish	□ disband	□ restructure	□ improve	□ recapitulate

6. They looked sorrowfully at the crops ravaged by the hurricane.

□ insulted	□ discarded	□ trapped	□ molested	□ ruined

7. Last year marked the end of European complacency toward what was wrongly perceived at the beginning as just a regional crisis.

□ central	□ consecutive	□ serious	□ local

8. Some residual problems were very difficult to resolve.

□ domestic	□ global	□ complex	□ remaining